Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the characteristic of this puss forming organism is that the legions it produces are wooled off , that is they 're relatively localized . |
| 2 | Unusually for a city hotel , it is set around a lovely , lush private garden where sun-loungers are set out around the wonderfully secluded swimming pool . |
| 3 | He hands over to a young man with a toothless grin under a Coca-Cola hat who has been elected locally as the group 's ‘ popular educator ’ . |
| 4 | The restoration of this historic fighter has been completed right down to the last detail , it carries a complete set of camera ports , although the cameras have not been fitted . |
| 5 | If satisfied that everything has been completed successfully then it should be dated in the Completion Confirmed on Date section of the form . |
| 6 | Once this stage has been completed successfully then stage three is implemented . |
| 7 | In the cases that I have mentioned everything is in order — all the forms have been filled in and returned by the contractor , the work has been completed satisfactorily — but it is a long time before the cheque is processed and the contractor paid . |
| 8 | When the rabbits are removed from the net I always toss mine belly upwards to the ground so that the white hair on the underside makes the rabbit more visible in the darkness and I can then collect it later once the killing operation has been completed all along the net . |
| 9 | In Kakap , following successful appraisal of the KRA discovery , a 3D seismic programme has been completed too assist in planning for development of the KRA and KG fields and to define further exploration opportunities in this new play . |
| 10 | This one is a truly beautiful model of an American ‘ ten-wheeler ’ called ‘ Sequoia ’ which has been completed recently in his railway 's own workshops . |
| 11 | Their challenge meeting away to Wolverhampton this evening has been rained off . |
| 12 | you go or the person who has been hypnotized so that in the most extreme cases , as we know , the hypnotized person lapses into a kind of trance , whether a kind of sleeping automaton with no ego and their decisions are now being made for them by the hypnotist who tells them what do to and they , they act as a kind of a , a puppet as if their ego ha has been turned off al al al altogether and clearly there 's a parallel here with what Freud 's going on in the group . |
| 13 | The mill rationalisation plan has been progressed swiftly and to timetable . |
| 14 | 10.8 If an employee who has been declared permanently unfit refuses reasonable offers of suitable alternative employment , they will be dismissed on grounds of permanent disablement . |
| 15 | One well-known example would be the basic social security regulation , Regulation 1408/71 which , although still in force , has been amended over and over again . |
| 16 | The section has been amended recently by new section 62A , which , by virtue of secondary legislation , makes clear that s.62 is intended , inter alia , to cover insider dealing . |
| 17 | Rule 7(6) of the Solicitors ' Practice Rules 1990 has been amended so as to allow solicitors to go into partnership with registered foreign lawyers . |
| 18 | If the WC cistern takes a long time to fill , it is possible that a high-pressure type of ballvalve has been fitted instead of a low-pressure type ( page 38 ) or that there is dirt in the valve orifice . |
| 19 | The dining-room has been fitted up ( but she ‘ could n't for goodness gracious tell why ’ ) in the ‘ middle-aged style ’ , and the drawing-room , supposedly her province , has become a kind of . |
| 20 | The 700 sq ft shop , called Ottakars Children 's , has a range of around 4,000 titles , and has been fitted out with children 's play and adult seating areas . |
| 21 | The visit has not all been work orientated , however , as a visit to Loch Ness has been fitted in , together with sight-seeing visits to Dundee and Inverness . |
| 22 | While there is no official price , $400,000 is a ball-park figure that has been bandied about . |
| 23 | Despite the improvement from IBM 's personal computer business , overall profits were weak in the company 's hardware operations : the gross profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29% , compared with 48% a year ago ( a decline of 19% has been bandied about , but that came from someone that does n't understand percentages — it 's a fall of 19 percentage points or 39.6% ) ; the overall gross margin was 39.5% in the first quarter , down from 50.8% a year ago ; IBM 's tax rate was 25% in the first quarter , below the 45% rate IBM had indicated earlier ; IBM told analysts to continue to expect the 45% rate for the rest of this year . |
| 24 | Keegan is demanding nothing like the £4,000 a week figure that has been bandied about . |
| 25 | As has been explained previously , the value of the Guinness offer for Distillers depended on the relative share prices of the two shares and the Guinness share price proved to be strong during the final lap of the campaign . |
| 26 | The point of making Bilbo both ‘ bourgeois ’ and ‘ burglar ’ has been explained above , see pp. 55–6 ; and the scene in Bag End in chapter 1 of The Hobbit is completely successful as comedy . |
| 27 | Our policy of maximising US dollar debt has been explained above . |
| 28 | The constitutional position of the police has been explained clearly and concisely by David Regan in his pamphlet Are the Police under Control ? : |
| 29 | If the relationship between two variables disappears when a prior variable is controlled , the original effect has been explained away . |
| 30 | Britain 's loss of overseas markets has been explained largely in terms of the qualitative factors such as design and poor delivery , to which reference has been made [ Caves , 1968 ; Stout , 1976 ] . |